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PixelPipes is all about the history of 3D graphics.
We reminisce on fond memories, conduct reviews, and delve into the deeper architectural details in a way that's accessible and entertaining for both the experienced, and the newcomers. Focusing primarily on ATI and NVIDIA products, we also sprinkle in some 3dfx Voodoo action, PowerVR, and more!
I'm Nathan, and this is PixelPipes.
We reminisce on fond memories, conduct reviews, and delve into the deeper architectural details in a way that's accessible and entertaining for both the experienced, and the newcomers. Focusing primarily on ATI and NVIDIA products, we also sprinkle in some 3dfx Voodoo action, PowerVR, and more!
I'm Nathan, and this is PixelPipes.
Building my first 486 PC // Pixel Fragment
I rescued a huge collection of mid-90s computers from being recycled, and I decided I finally have no excuse not to build a 486 system! Except of course... I have no idea what I'm doing.
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Modernizing the Compaq Portable III from 1987
Просмотров 10 тыс.7 месяцев назад
In this [belated] #DOScember 2023 video we take a look at one of my favorite retro computers, the Compaq Portable III! This is a lengthy overview so I hope you enjoy! 🎵 Purchase STARFORCE - Omniversal Oscillations: starforce.bandcamp.com/album/omniversal-oscillations 🔨 Links to useful things I found for this project: • Medley DOS Menu System: reimagery.com/fsfd/menu.htm#smallmenus • Old Silicon...
The $199 Radeon X800 & GeForce 6800 Quick 'n Dirty Comparison // Pixel Fragment
Просмотров 9 тыс.Год назад
In this Pixel Fragment video, I spent a day talking about and doing some quick tests comparing NVIDIA's GeForce 6800 (PCI Express version) versus ATI's Radeon X800 (also PCI Express). Like other Fragment videos this is a one-day production video with no script and simplistic tests (no 1% lows here). Apologies for the clipping audio, as I changed up my recording device and it still needs some tw...
SiS 315: Budget Champ or Bargain Bin Chump?
Просмотров 12 тыс.Год назад
In this video we take a look at the SiS 315, and a Deluxe model at that! This graphics card from late 2000/early 2001 went after the budget market, and we pit it against rivals from ATI and NVIDIA while giving the card a bit of our usual brand of context. Platform specs: Athlon XP-M 2400 (Barton) @ 2.25GHz 512MB PC2700 MSI KT3 Ultra v1.0 (VIA KT333) Aureal Vortex 2 SD to IDE Adapter w/64GB Sand...
Quick Look at the TexElec XT IDE to SD Card Adapter #DOScember // Pixel Fragment
Просмотров 8 тыс.Год назад
Using a TexElec XT IDE to SD Card adapter in my IBM XT 5160. This was purchased myself and is not a sponsored video. TexElec Adapter: texelec.com/product/isa-ide-to-sd-adapter/ Generic SD to IDE Adapter (non-affiliate link): www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YFPX7JB/ Commander Keen 4 & 5 Composite CGA Patch: www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=48215 ○PixelPipes Store: shop.spreadshirt.com/pixelpipes/ ○Jo...
The Unloved Voodoo Banshee
Просмотров 29 тыс.2 года назад
In this video for #GPUJune2 we try and find why out the 3dfx Voodoo Banshee was so unloved, and if there are any redeeming qualities to it. #GPUJune2 official playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLC-GPEYjsF-jCv-pDjBo_c6sqEroU_eEL Banshee AGP Platform: Pentium II 450MHz 256MB PC100 Biostar M6TBA v1.5 Sound Blaster 16 CT2940 Wester Digital 80GB HDD Windows 98SE Banshee PCI Platform: AMD K6-2 @ 600MHz 192MB P...
Announcing #GPUJune2!
Просмотров 3,4 тыс.2 года назад
It's official, we're doing it again! Join us this June for the 2022 edition of GPUJune, creatively named, #GPUJune2 Check out the details here: www.gpujune.com/ ○PixelPipes Store: shop.spreadshirt.com/pixelpipes/ ○Join the Pixel Talk Discord: discord.gg/m6xyBeD ○Instagram: pixelpipes ○Follow me on Twitter @pixelpipes ○Donate via Paypal: @pixelpipes Music from epidemicsound.com - ...
An MPact on the collection // PixelBOX Ep.14
Просмотров 4,2 тыс.2 года назад
In this episode of PixelBOX Haul, we have RedNautilus, Pancake Puppy, and Watson to thank for their generous donations to the PixelPipes channel! ○PixelPipes Store: shop.spreadshirt.com/pixelpipes/ ○Join the Pixel Talk Discord: discord.gg/m6xyBeD ○Instagram: pixelpipes ○Follow me on Twitter @pixelpipes ○Donate via Paypal: @pixelpipes Music from epidemicsound.com - Get a 30 day tr...
What the GeForce FX 5800 Ultra SHOULD have been
Просмотров 17 тыс.2 года назад
In this video we compare the notorious GeForce FX 5800 Ultra to its spiritual successor of sorts, the GeForce 6600GT. Previous videos covering the FX series: -The GeForce FX Series - NVIDIA's Huge Misstep - ruclips.net/video/x5EyPxAIqyA/видео.html -GeForce FX 5800 Ultra vs Radeon 9700 Pro | Card Battles - ruclips.net/video/qN4O2IqlS84/видео.html -ATI's Revolutionary Radeon 9700 Pro - ruclips.ne...
Fixing your retro hardware the modern way: Andonstar's Digital Microscope
Просмотров 2,8 тыс.2 года назад
In this video we take a look at a digital microscope from Andonstar, which advertises the ability to output sharp images through HDMI, USB, as well as capture to a MicroSD card. Purchase here (not an affiliate link): www.amazon.com/dp/B08RHTTNRM DISCLAIMER: This product was provided to me by Andonstar for the purpose of featuring it in a video. They did not in any way influence my coverage of t...
A low-profile DirectX 10 POWERHOUSE from 2008 // Pixel Fragment
Просмотров 13 тыс.2 года назад
In this video, we take a look at Sparkle's low profile GeForce GTS 250, and it's a small wonder! This video had multiple frustrating issues and is uploaded as-is, with some issues still intact and unresolved. I apologize for that, but also I don't care enough to redo huge sections for this little video. So I hope you'll bear with me. Platform specs: Core 2 Duo E8600 @ 4.5GHz 2GB OCZ SLI Ready P...
Getting the studio back in shape // Pixel Fragment
Просмотров 2,6 тыс.2 года назад
After a bit of a hiatus following a move to a new place, I'm finally starting the process of getting the studio back to a useable state. ○PixelPipes Store: shop.spreadshirt.com/pixelpipes/ ○Join the Pixel Talk Discord: discord.gg/m6xyBeD ○Instagram: pixelpipes ○Follow me on Twitter @pixelpipes ○Donate via Paypal: @pixelpipes Music from epidemicsound.com - Get a 30 day trial by us...
Potentially the fastest card with 4 pipes // Pixel Fragment
Просмотров 10 тыс.3 года назад
Potentially the fastest card with 4 pipes // Pixel Fragment
ATI's Revolutionary Radeon 9700 Pro
Просмотров 37 тыс.3 года назад
ATI's Revolutionary Radeon 9700 Pro
A fan-made 3dfx Voodoo project, and a scrap box full of cards! // PixelBOX Haul Ep.13
Просмотров 9 тыс.3 года назад
A fan-made 3dfx Voodoo project, and a scrap box full of cards! // PixelBOX Haul Ep.13
GeForce 7800GTX vs Radeon X1800XT | Card Battles
Просмотров 23 тыс.3 года назад
GeForce 7800GTX vs Radeon X1800XT | Card Battles
The last single-slot flagship graphics card
Просмотров 26 тыс.3 года назад
The last single-slot flagship graphics card
2020 sucks a little less now // PixelBOX Haul Ep.12
Просмотров 5 тыс.3 года назад
2020 sucks a little less now // PixelBOX Haul Ep.12
How did I get all these graphics cards?? | PixelPipes Q&A
Просмотров 12 тыс.3 года назад
How did I get all these graphics cards?? | PixelPipes Q&A
NVIDIA TNT2 Ultra vs 3Dfx Voodoo3 3500 | Card Battles
Просмотров 41 тыс.3 года назад
NVIDIA TNT2 Ultra vs 3Dfx Voodoo3 3500 | Card Battles
PowerVR Kyro Series: Better than it really should be
Просмотров 41 тыс.4 года назад
PowerVR Kyro Series: Better than it really should be
A History on AGP: The Accelerated Graphics Port
Просмотров 31 тыс.4 года назад
A History on AGP: The Accelerated Graphics Port
Voodoo5 5500 vs Rage Fury MAXX | Card Battles
Просмотров 43 тыс.4 года назад
Voodoo5 5500 vs Rage Fury MAXX | Card Battles
It Comes Full Circle // PixelBOX Haul Ep.11
Просмотров 7 тыс.5 лет назад
It Comes Full Circle // PixelBOX Haul Ep.11
wow. video on AGP history but no benchmarks agp vs pcie... coool 😴
I already know cuz i started back in Isa/ VLB so i know whats up but many here prob dont..
PixelPipes in your bum dear.
I love all those retro computers, the 90's was a magical era for computers, and gaming..........and the rise of 3dfx...........we won't talk about what happened to them later. The 3dfx Interactive company ushered in 3D gaming on the home, or consumer PC, I bought my first computer in 1997, and I was so excited to get it; but, quickly became disappointed in the graphics when I bought NFS2se. Then I heard about the Diamond Monster 3D card, I bought one, and the transformation was magical.........and I've been hooked ever since. Love this channel and Phil's Computer Lab!
As bad as he makes it out to be it still plays older Windows 95 & 98 games just fine. I have the LEADTEK GeFORCE FX 5200 128MB DDR PCI card, that combined with DirectX 9.0a, and nGlide you can play almost all older games (some will need a patch available online) just fine! I use Nvidia driver version 45.43, and nGlide version 1.05. Serious Sam shown here I run a much higher end Windows XP rig, and games like Quake III I run on my second Windows 98 PC with a FX5700 25mb. I play Quake II as an example on the FX5200, and many other Windows 95 games.
I remember being shocked to find a graphics card that I haven't heard of, but actually isn't terrible. If they'd make a 32MB Kyro 2 and sell it for MX400's price, perhaps the biggest company in 2024 would have been PowerVR :D
Who's here after Budget Builds covered it?
I miss this era when technology was new. I remember watching a tech demo that I can't remember it's name, nor who made it. But this is what I remember: 1st scene was about armored car in apocalypse where you get to shoot a few enemy turrets and then drive away until you fall into the abyss. 2nd scene was about a dragon flying over the castle, breathing fire against the knights. It had 2 views. 1st view was watching dragon fly in the distance. 2nd view was close up shot on top of dragon's head, you could also see the horns. 3rd and possibly last scene was the shootout inside a office or empty hall. in this scene, there were 3-5 characters shooting to each other while dodging the bullets like Matrix and Max Payne style. That is all I remember. I will try my hardest to find this tech demo. I wish people could make more tech demos like this.
It does sound familiar, don't you know when the demo was made? It does sound like a 3DFX demo.
@@cyphaborg6598 I'll give it a shot on this one.
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We have one of these 386s for sale.
ASRock was pulling off some really cool boards from the get go, even though people were sceptical towards them.
I think ATI's 8500 was the first turn around of 3D graphics and smoother game play. What makes me sad and happy is a lot of great tech of Bump Mapping and this advanced tech came out of MatroxG400Max design.. Later Nvidia and ATI stole it But, Matrox wasn't allowed to use Open GL or Glide. drivers.. But, I used my CD's and used them anyway and let me tell you wow.! Best times.
It's literally the PS3 gpu!
And FX series up to 5600 was last series which supported all nvidias features such as table fog 8bit textures. So yes, fx5200 64bit version still can be a good choice. What type of a driver did you use? My current is 56.xx or 45.xx for XP, and 43.xx for win98.
Great Video Great Post very nice.. In my Opinion... and my experience.. Doom 95 and Quake 3 Arena wow.. 1998 - 2001 had some of the best years of gaming in history and great new age graphic cards and Nvidia and ATI went head to head... MatroxG400Max was untouchable with bump Mapping !!! and graphic quality SAD shitty D3D drivers made it's performance suck. But you could use !!! OPEN GL and GLIDE Voodoo drivers in game on the Matrox back then making it FLY !!! look outstanding and destroy the other companies back then but nobody knew. Later Matrox couldn't keep up High prices at half the performance just well sad really. Parahelia was a nice idea again drivers and high prices low performance made it fail Great tech though ! Matrox does Corporate anyway Huge money..! Military and Medical and computer design specialty cards Nvidia and AMD do not only now Nvidia has caught up.
Ruby on cooler, yeah!
Had a creative labs one with an athlon. There was one strange quirk where after updating to windows xp the card would not work with any Quake 3 engine games. So I was stuck unable to play jedi knight 2 🤦🏻♂️
at that time only dreamed of having
At the time the biggest reason to buy Voodoo was Glide - anything with glide looked and ran amazing compared to it's direct 3D version. Glide was far less CPU intensive and far better optimised than the versions of Direct3D available at the time. Comparing and looking at it today with the optimised drivers and direct 3d versions available is not a valid comparison to how it looked and ran when these cards were released. My memory of it was anything direct 3D sucked, looked like crap and ran choppy when compared to a voodoo and the Glide API which gave you smooth consistent frame rates and quality bilinear filtering making textures smooth and non blocky. This meant anything that wasn't voodoo was mediocre in comparison. It was voodoo or go home - this was the case until the Geforce range of cards came along....Riva was rubbish in comparison and everything else was even worse. The problem with the Banshee at the time, besides the missing TMU was Glide compatibility was sketchy at best - a lot of games didn't work properly or ran badly, and since what i said about Glide being the main (if not only reason) to get a voodoo at the time, then if glide didn't work - the banshee was crap also.
3d vodoo fx 16mb
I remember when they put fast midrange AGP card GPUs onto PCI 32 bit. What a joke! The bus was saturated like a Louisiana Bayou night!
I suppose when the Banshee is all that I have then I will learn to love it
Doom 3 was stunning on release, it instantly became the new gpu testing benchmark, the only other that had a bigger impact was crisis! When Doom 3 released i had just upgraded to a radeon 9800 Pro, with my high end gear all overclocked and water cooled in the days before you could even buy water cooling gear such as pumps, blocks and rads, I had a self made wc loop! The card didn't need it but with my fsb, gpu and cpu all over volted and clocked, I was getting butter smooth fps in Doom 3 at high res and max settings. I will never forget the look on my mates face when he saw the graphics and witnessed the high resolution! He said how console gaming had a long way to go and he didn't realise the clarity that pc gamers were playing with! Bearing in mind that at that time they were playing ps2 games on old crt televisions with resolutions not much higher than the game boy screen! So resolutions way higher than 1080p at a time when HD tvs didn't exist, was too much for his brain! He finally conceded that day that pc gaming was by far, the best way to go! My 9800 Pro ran this game like a dream too, back then I was all team red because I refused to pay 3 x the price for a gpu just because it gave slightly better visuals and half the games had a 10fps increase over the top ati card and the other half were identical fps! Same with processors, back then I was full on amd and radeon! The early 2ks were the absolute best time for pc gaming. We experienced ALL the original game types, the advent of overclocking, modding, cooling and case design and all the important changes! First cpu to hit 1000mhz! First dual core cpu's! First double gpu builds via crossfire and SLI, ddr ram, high res and high hz gaming! It all happened in the early to mid 2ks and I'm so glad that was the peak of my gaming years!
I don't suppose this has Windows 98 drivers? Thinking about getting a PCI-PCIe bridge and an old GPU for virtualization, because the few 3D acceleration options for Windows 98 virtualization that do exist, are not performant. I'm going to need some sort of GPU passthrough, but Windows 98 supports few if any native PCIe cards.
Just came across your video. I picked up an Athlon XP 1800+ machine, has an ATi 8500 128MB AGP version in it. VGA and S-Video only. 2D seems to work fine in Windows XP (Rollercoaster Tycoon, Bejeweled, etc) but if you try and install the ATI 6.11 Catalyst drivers, the screen goes black. If you load the drivers manually through device manager, the drivers load but anything 3D rendering is fully corrupt/sometimes black screens. Only recovery method is to power off the machine and back on. Have a 9600XT 256mb on the way from ebay, so hopefully that works. :D
is this mobo that affected your PCI graphic card benchmarks? :P
I miss the PixelPipes videos in my feed on regular. Hope Nathan’s doing alright. He always presented retro tech in such a cool way 👍🏾
Add 9:35 you show the used gamer MB I just bought with a FX 8300 and a Quadro K4200
Would the gt520 be bottle necked by a pentium 4?
Hi. Any way to run 4k at resolution at 60hertz on AGP card?
some banshee cards overclocked extremely well, too. I had a diamond version that did 166mhz without breaking a sweat. Wish I still had the card, would be fun to do some volt mods and see how far it could really go.
Yo man, QUESTION!? Can I use as "Screen Saver" every graphical demonstration you showed in this video?
27:29 Dude I had these 3 graphic demonstrations when I had my very first Video Card The NVidia GeForce 4400 MX Ti if I still remember the model right. You forgot to show the woman robot dancing on top of the water! I had these 3 the Werewolf, Dancin Robot and Squid Robot under the water but I do not remember if I have that forest pool. All of these are included after installing the drivers of the Video Card. Until now I still have that driver disc with me!
I was lucky enough to get an FX 5800 (non ultra) card as part of a recycle lot for $0. Its not a terrible card, at least for the Pentium-3 era retro box Its planned for. On launch I bought a dumb FX 5200 card, worst card ever (except what it replaced, a GeForce4 MX something, rebadged GF2).
The 3dfx 5550 wasn't a great PCI card. It was a garbage AGP card, thus the differences between the two weren't great.
Exceptions lol the Asrock Dual Sata i have one of these boards.
this is totally amd/ATI biased site , but all in all its good channel
I remember my x1950pro Was perfect.
I have the FX5700 AGP, I use it in a Windows 98 gaming computer, it supports DirectX 9.0a, that along with the Nvidia driver v56.64, and nGlide v1.05 allows me to run all my 62 Windows 95 & 98 games I have for that machine.
thank you very much for video. very interesting. I've been waiting for such a comparison for a long time
I would really love to have that one with the black visor (middle), damn it :( Very nice rescue im jealous a bit, hmm, ok quite a bit lol :)
ATI did incredible. Imagine if it shipped with 24 pipes like Nvidia. The ati card would have been such a monster.
I remember when GPU meant Geometry Processing Unit not just as a general term for a 'Graphics Card' I was saying to a friend a while back how the terms use had changed but couldn't find much online about it at the time (I didn't exactly deep dive lol), nice to see a vid confirming I'm not totally crazy haha
i still have my Radeon 9800 Pro
Nvidia cards are terrible under Windows 98, that's why I choose ATi.
The same era uncharted 1 running realtime in PS3 is more advanced than this tech demo..
Got a free Radeon 7000 from someone and was excited to put it in an old PC... only to find that this PC on has PCI slots and no AGP slots. This is helping me land on the FX5500 for this old XP machine and see how it goes.
I bought one of these. I played Need for Speed Underground on it. It was a rough experience. I did all my homework and saved all my money and bought a Radeon 9800 pro. I have owned one other Nvidia card in my life. A 6800GT. It didn't suck but I replaced it with an X800XT just because. That deal with the FX 5200 made me dislike Nvidia to be honest.They claimed it to be a gaming card. It wasn't.
note: sis cards have all their settings hidden in the registry, vsync and all. you can change some settings that turn some games from unplayable mash of textures and warped polys to perfectly playable
I used an FX5600XT till i got my 9800XT and used till my 8800GTS 640mb.
The 9800XT was better with custom drivers
The 9800XT was better with custom drivers
The kyro cards i remember well in pc magazines when i was in highschool 😂.
Go look at prices for the x1300 pro right now. Pci-e: 20$, AGP: 60 to 100$?!